Functional Testing Contracts in Yorkshire

Functional Testing
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for Functional Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Functional Testing over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 105 133
Rank change year-on-year +12 +28 -41
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 6 21 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.36% 0.92% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 1.01% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 8
10th Percentile £443 - £317
25th Percentile £463 £400 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +9.89% +10.30%
75th Percentile £517 £563 £525
90th Percentile - £800 £539
England median daily rate £494 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -14.13% +21.05% +0.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Functional Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,451 2,074 2,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.37% 90.77% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 870 1,375 1,771
10th Percentile £263 £285 £263
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 65 81
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -10.42%
75th Percentile £22.00 £22.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £54.45 £27.25
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in Yorkshire

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Functional Testing in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in Yorkshire

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Functional Testing in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in Yorkshire

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire +23 4 £500 -6.93% 3
South Yorkshire -3 1 - - 1
Functional Testing
England

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 2 (33.33%) Postman
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) JMeter
2 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) QA Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) QA Test Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
4 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
4 3 (50.00%) IT Audit
4 3 (50.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) Test Planning
5 2 (33.33%) Project Management
5 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (16.67%) DevOps
6 1 (16.67%) Migration
6 1 (16.67%) OOP
6 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
6 1 (16.67%) Time Management
6 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Wind River